{"id":43112,"date":"2025-11-14T13:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/?post_type=article&#038;p=43112"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:29:15","slug":"icas-results-2025","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/article\/icas-results-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"ICAS Results 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-40886\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2025\/06\/Natalie-Hird-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2025\/06\/Natalie-Hird-2025.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2025\/06\/Natalie-Hird-2025-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>ICAS Results 2025<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are excited to have recently received the results from this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icasassessments.com\/\">ICAS<\/a> competition!\u00a0ICAS assessments require students to use higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills, and to test their ability to apply learning to new contexts. They are renowned for being academically challenging. Congratulations to all the girls who sat the English, Science, Mathematics and\/or Digital Technologies papers last term! The following students deserve special mention, having received either High\u00a0Distinctions (top 1% of participants) or\u00a0Distinctions (next 10% of participants). Well done, girls!<\/p>\n<p><strong>English<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>High\u00a0Distinctions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Marina Chen<\/strong> (Year 4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Layla Montgomery<\/strong> (Year 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peta Bianchi-Howden<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong> Maya Haysom-McDowell<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mia Li<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Distinctions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Syra Advani<\/strong> (Year 3)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rachel Rodrigues<\/strong> (Year 3)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hannah Wang<\/strong> (Year 3)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Angelina Jiang<\/strong> (Year 4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Avery Lan<\/strong> (Year 4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Caitlyn Law<\/strong> (Year 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emma Mo<\/strong> (Year 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Olivia Sivieng<\/strong> (Year 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amanda Zhang<\/strong> (Year 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mikayla Brown<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Irene<\/strong> <strong>Chau<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elana Chrun<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daisy Han<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Audrey Henderson<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Genevieve Livesey<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Caitlyn Rodrigues<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>High Distinctions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Maya<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Haysom-McDowell<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mia Li<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Distinctions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Amelia Libdy<\/strong> (Year 3)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yvonne Henderson<\/strong> (Year 4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Angelina Jiang<\/strong> (Year 4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peta Bianchi-Howden<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elana Chrun<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vivienne Woon<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mathematics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>High\u00a0Distinctions\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Caitlyn Law<\/strong> (Year 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emma Mo<\/strong> (Year 5)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Distinctions\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Emma Yan<\/strong> (Year 3)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Angelina Jiang<\/strong> (Year 4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Angela Zhang<\/strong> (Year 4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amy Zong<\/strong> (Year 4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bartolina Iacono<\/strong> (Year 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nancy Liang<\/strong> (Year 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charlotte Mok<\/strong> (Year 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leanna Shen<\/strong> (Year 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amanda Zhang<\/strong> (Year 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Irene Chau<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elana Chrun<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mia Li<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Digital Technologies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Distinctions\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Marina Chen<\/strong> (Year 4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Angelina Jiang<\/strong> (Year 4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Caitlyn Law<\/strong> (Year 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leanna Shen<\/strong> (Year 5)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mia<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Li<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Estella Tran<\/strong> (Year 6)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"nhird@mlcsyd.nsw.edu.au\">&#8211; Natalie Hird<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>Deputy Head of Junior School &#8211; Operations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICAS Results 2025 We are excited to have recently received the results from this year\u2019s ICAS competition!\u00a0ICAS assessments require students to use higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills, and to test their ability to apply learning to new contexts. They are renowned for being academically challenging. Congratulations to all the girls who sat the English, Science, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[5],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-43112","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-junior-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/43112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=43112"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=43112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}